Galileo Galilei - When the World Stood StillSpringer Science & Business Media, 23 de febr. 2006 - 221 pàgines "I, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years ...kneeling before you Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals ...I abjure, curse, detest the aforesaid errors and heresies." The mathematician and physicist Galileo Galilei is one of the most famous scientists of all times. The story of his life and times, of his epoch-making experiments and discoveries, of his stubbornness and pride, of his patrons in the house of Medici, of his enemies and friends in their struggle for truth - all is brought vividly to life in this book. Atle Næss has written a gripping account of one of the great figures in European history.
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... Natural philosophy, logic and mathematics were “medical subjects”, as well as the very recently developed anatomy, with its spectacular dissections. Mathematics and astronomy were important for doctors principally because they had to be ...
... natural philosophy. Ricci opened a new world to the young student, the world of algebra and geometry. He made Galileo acquainted with the works of a Venetian named Niccolò Tartaglia, who had probably been Ricci's own teacher, and who ...
... natural philosophy , was Aristotle . His disciples had been called Peripatetics – those who walk about – because it was claimed that the master had taught in this way . Aristotle's thoughts about the natural world had congealed into an ...
... natural science. The establishment at Pisa was interested in the principles of movement, that branch of physics which would later be called kinematics. One of his elder colleagues had written a huge work, On Motion (De motu) which was ...
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